Sentence examples for purposes illegal from inspiring English sources

It's no coincidence that California is one of the few states in the U.S. where non-competes are, for all intents and purposes, illegal.

You could get just about anything from a food truck in Midtown Manhattan — from waffles and schnitzel to halal chicken and lamb over rice — despite the fact that street vending is for all intents and purposes illegal there.

Prior to the CROWDFUND Act, selling equity interests in companies via crowdfunding was for all practical purposes illegal under United States securities laws.

Operating drones for commercial purposes is illegal under US law.

Cloning for human reproductive purposes is illegal in two dozen countries.

Importing or shipping the species or products made from it into the state for commercial purposes is illegal.

Another promising path that the president and Congress should consider is amending the Mann Act, which outlaws the movement of people, including children, for purposes of illegal sex.

Last year, for example, America's Supreme Court ruled against Grokster, a firm that made software which could be used for the purposes of illegal file-sharing.

Letting agency fees for administration purposes are illegal in Scotland, and the law was tightened in 2012 to agents exploiting loopholes and charging them anyway.

Selling or buying corpses for commercial purposes is illegal in China, but these individual transactions, usually for cash, seem to fall into a fuzzier category and are quietly arranged between families.

Use of Nazi symbols except for educational purposes is illegal in Germany.